Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-10-29
To TIE TEACHERS AND TRUSTEES OF
TIE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ACCOMAC

To TIE TEACHERS AND TRUSTEES OF
TIE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ACCOMAC
COUNTY:
Again you have entered upon the du-
ties Of another scholastic Year land today
nearly one hundred schools arc in active
operation with about four thousand
children III attendance. would ask
you whist yet on the very threshold of
this session, to pause and consider well
the wrighty ana fearful RESPONSIBILITIES
which YOU have assumed. Think Of the
many shades of temperament, DISPOSE
ton and character with which you Will
he so closely associated, and which You
will be expected to soften, cultivate and
mould for all future usefulness. Your
duties are indeed varied and stupen
duous to contemplate. In many res.
pecls your responsibilities and duties.as
teachers. are of nature more grave,
more important than that even of the
fathers and mothers who send their
children to your observation-disclosures
it is expected Of you not only toad
vance and educare your pupils. but also
to correct all errors of tender childhood
that may have been formed at home and
otherwise, before coming under your
care and tutorship. l would ask you
then to enter this vast field of labor
with Il full determination to do Your
whole dut,-nOt only in the daily rou-
tine of hook lessons and the improve
ment of their mental faculties, hut also
strive by precept and example to cult
vate their every faculty OF mind and
heart that tends to make the perfect
man or woman. The future hope of
our county is committed TO your care
and keeping. and | do not think tat
you will betray that confidence and
trust.
\ few general instructions to orr
teachers-many Of whom are new ones
this session, may not be amiss III this
connection. Gail upon the clerks of
YOUR respective District Boards OF
school trustees, if you are not already
supplied, fol sufficient number of
seats, desks, blackGoards and other es
sentials for your schools, alsOfor MONTH
ly and term.report blanks and school
registers. Often your trustees are in
ignorance Of your necessities. but will
gladly furnish them if notified by yuu.
Tie school holidays as decided Ivy orr
county school board, are rs follow:
Schools to be closed during Christmas
week without compensation to the
teachers. Easter Monday. Whitsuu-
tide Monday and Tuesday and Thanks
giving day, (when proclaimed by the
Governor of VirgilIia) shall be o;sider-
ed legal holidays.
Every TEACHER is requested to send a
monthly report 10 Supt., dated flom the
3rd day OF October for the days actually
taught and will be paid accnrtlingly.-
Lost days cannot be made up. Monthly
reports must he made up and forwarded
within three days after the school
month expires.
And now word to the school trus-
tees; yoar duties gentlemen are scarely
less weighty and responsible than those
Of The many teachers with whom you
have contracted and commissioned to
teach the children of our county. Eli
deavor then to visit your schools as
often as possible aud thereby encourage
and stimulate your teachers, by mani
Testing to them an interest i'll the great
work which you have assigned to them.
Give them, as far as possible out of the
limited funds at your disposal, comfort
able school houses with all the necessary
appurienances for teaching. Do not
wait Until the SHOWS Of winter come, or
till called upon BY your teachers-many
of whom are young ladies tender III
years and experience, and who no doubt
modrstly refrain from teasing you TODD
your duty, and too often, l fear, are over
looked OF neglected in school essentials.
/ have made these requests and sug.
gestions not in aspirlt Of disparagcment
because I am daily cngnizant of noble
personal efforts and sacrifices being
made to promote the great cause Of edu-
cation in our land, but make them to
further encourage and foster the cause
which is of most vital Importance to our
children, ami to our county. Then let
us all--pal elits, children, teachers, trus-
tees and superintendent, strive to har-
monte in one mighty effort to build up
and sustain our public schools,and there.
10y make them what they are designed
10 be-a blessing to all.
JOHN E. MAPP,
Co. Sapt.